Crossword Puzzle Number 3816 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. (usually plural) An ulterior implicit meaning or quality.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. Black tropical American cuckoo.
19. Make numb or insensitive.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
24. The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
28. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
29. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
30. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
32. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
39. A (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant.
40. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
41. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. (Greek mythology) God of love.
46. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
47. Inquire about.
48. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
50. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
52. A resort city in western Florida.
54. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
55. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
57. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
58. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
63. An industrial region in the Ukraine.
65. A republic in central Africa.
68. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
74. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
75. An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality.
76. A periodic paperback publication.
77. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
80. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
81. Not widely known.
82. A curve in a stream.
83. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.

DOWN

1. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
2. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
3. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
4. 100 kobos equal 1 naira.
5. Report or maintain.
6. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
7. A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
8. A unit of pressure.
9. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
12. Thin and fit.
13. A Loloish language.
14. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. Submerged freshwater perennials.
25. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
31. A member of the Moslem dynasty that ruled India until 1857.
33. Relating to only part of a whole.
34. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
35. Small cold-water silvery fish.
36. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
37. Mostly social nest-building wasps.
38. The capital of Turkey.
42. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
45. A fraudulent business scheme.
49. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
51. Equipped with or wearing a helmet.
53. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
56. Wild rice.
59. Wear away.
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
64. A drama set to music.
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
67. A battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690.
69. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
71. An Asian river between China and Russia.
72. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
73. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
78. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
79. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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